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Nearest Communities to Bear Creek Summer Home Area,
Listed County-By-County

The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Bear Creek Summer Home Area, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Bear Creek Summer Home Area:

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Bear Creek Summer Home Area.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Bear Creek Summer Home Area is located in Boise County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Boise County: Ada, Custer, Elmore, Gem & Valley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bear Creek Summer Home Area. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Boise County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Bear Creek Summer Home Area (which is Boise County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Bear Creek Summer Home Area

For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.

  • Boise County   (where Bear Creek Summer Home Area resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.boisecounty.us/
    • County Seat for Boise:   Idaho City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bear Creek Summer Home Area   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bear Creek Summer Home Area.
      • Camp Creek Summer Home Area
        (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Graham ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Graham is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graham
      • Banner
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Banner is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banner
      • Long Creek Summit Home
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Lowman
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Blaine County
  • Custer County
    • County Website:   https://custercountyidaho.org/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Challis
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bear Creek Summer Home Area   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bear Creek Summer Home Area.
      • Grandjean
        (Less than 2 miles to the east)
        • Grandjean is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grandjean
      • Lower Stanley
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Lower Stanley is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Stanley
      • Stanley
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Cape Horn ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Cape Horn is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cape Horn
      • Obsidian
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Obsidian is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Obsidian
      • Sunbeam
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Sunbeam is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunbeam
      • Robinson Bar
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Robinson Bar is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Bar
      • Bonanza ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Bonanza is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonanza
      • Custer ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Custer is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Custer
      • Torreys
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Torreys is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torreys
  • Elmore County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bear Creek Summer Home Area) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking.

We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now.

Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know.
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